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  LUHYALAND Date(s) Item 1895 Kenya became a British protectorate. 1899 Land regulations enabled white settlers to expropriate much of the indigenous peoples' fertile land in the highlands. 1915 The British colonial administration instituted policies thwarting Africans from owning land in the Rift Valley area. The creation of the "White Highlands" displaced thousands of African nomadic groups (the Kalenjin, Maasai, Samburu, and Turkana) who had lived in the area. While the colonial settlers ousted these pastoralists who were unfit for providing agricultural labor, they recruited cheap labor from the neighboring areas (now Central, Nyanza and Western Provinces). Thousands of Kikuyu, Kisii, Luhya, and Luo squatters were brought into the Rift Valley area in the early 1900s. 1921 - 1930 European and Indian settlers made political claims. African political activity began to be organized, especially among the Kikuyu in Nairobi and among the Luo. 1923 The British colonia...

   Sikhokhone, Lilyang’ina lie Babukusu In a distant world beyond the mighty oceans, a pink man, Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990), who believed that power-centered leaders were not effective, started the servant leadership movement. His works such as  The Servant as a Leader (1970 ) have founded modern servant leadership studies – the servant leadership. Greenleaf, however, did not start servant leadership in America; it was founded in the rocky deserts of the brown people. Started by a young Jewish boy who came to win souls in all corners of the world- Christ Jesus. A servant leader is one who is considers him/herself as a servant first, and then serves the people with humility while prioritizing needs of others above his own. Ancient Bukusu history is full of examples of servant leadership, elders who serve people with great humility and sacrifice.  But, good leadership in Bukusu culture was associated with nobility. A noble man or woman is one who earned respect in...